diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9363a3c..3f9b0e3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>edu.stanford.nlp</groupId>
       <artifactId>stanford-corenlp</artifactId>
-      <version>3.9.2</version>
+      <version>4.4.0</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>